How to format your references using the Intervirology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Intervirology. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Koriat A. When are two heads better than one and why? Science. 2012 Apr;336(6079):360–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Csete ME, Doyle JC. Reverse engineering of biological complexity. Science. 2002 Mar;295(5560):1664–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Vinther J, Van Roy P, Briggs DEG. Machaeridians are Palaeozoic armoured annelids. Nature. 2008 Jan;451(7175):185–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Min B, Ostby E, Sorger V, Ulin-Avila E, Yang L, Zhang X, et al. High-Q surface-plasmon-polariton whispering-gallery microcavity. Nature. 2009 Jan;457(7228):455–8.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Choudhry M, Moskovic D, Wong M, Baig S, Liu Z, Lizzio M, et al. Fixed Income Markets. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

Rubeis V de, Czechowski Z, Teisseyre R, editors. Synchronization and Triggering: from Fracture to Earthquake Processes: Laboratory, Field Analysis and Theories. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Karakitsiou A. Competitive Multilevel Capacity Allocation. In: Migdalas A, Sifaleras A, Georgiadis CK, Papathanasiou J, Stiakakis E, editors. Optimization Theory, Decision Making, and Operations Research Applications: Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium and 10th Balkan Conference on Operational Research. New York, NY: Springer; 2013; pp 71–89.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Intervirology.

Blog post

Andrew E. Saving Nemo: How Climate Change Threatens Anemonefish And Their Homes [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 Jun [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/saving-nemo-how-climate-change-threatens-anemonefish-and-their-homes/

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office. Maritime Administration’s Federal Ship Financing Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Hill L. Unique forms of knowledge and curriculum in hip-hop pedagogy. 2015

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Vecsey G. A Yankee Bleacher Creature Takes a Little Off the Top. New York Times. 2010 Feb;B11.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Intervirology
Abbreviation	Intervirology
ISSN (print)	0300-5526
ISSN (online)	1423-0100
Scope	Virology Infectious Diseases